Writingin the current issue of the Kyiv journal Politychna dumka,National Security and Defense Council head Volodymyr Horbulinobserves that Ukraine's foreign policy doctrine has "de factorenounced... MORE

Consumer prices in Ukraine rose during May by only0.8 percent, according to preliminary official estimates. (Interfax-Ukraina,June 6) This means prices increased during the first five... MORE

The unwillingness of Ukraine's parliament to passthe 1997 state budget and the government's tax reform proposals-- and thereby to convince the IMF to release the... MORE

On an official visit to Georgia, Ukrainian defense minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk conferred with President Eduard Shevardnadze and signed with Defense Minister Vardiko Nadibaidze a package... MORE

Yesterday's Russian-Ukrainian agreement in Kiev has apparently put an end to years of bickering on just where the Russian and Ukrainian components of the former... MORE

A Russian newspaper on May 14 reported that China had purchased the unfinished ex-Soviet aircraft carrier "Varyag" for $2.4 billion as part of Beijing's effort... MORE

Armenian finance minister Levon Barkhoudarian told a news conference in Yerevan on May 12 that official IMF approval for the release of the first $25... MORE

The chiefs of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's legal affairs and border affairs departments told a briefing yesterday that Russia remains the only one among Ukraine's... MORE

The presidents of Ukraine and Belarus, Leonid Kuchma and Aleksandr Lukashenko, and senior officials of the two countries conferred on May 12-13 in Kiev on... MORE

According to the Ministry of Statistics, more than 6,600 non-state industrial enterprises were operating in Ukraine during the first quarter of 1997. These firms constituted... MORE